Subject: 1656 bound rock with ghost tripoint claim & perhaps beyond<br/>
Date: Aug 10, 2005 @ 22:34<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-223322510">still attending to some funny business here on cream<br/>
hill this week<br/>
but am preparing to make a pilgrimage next week to the<br/>
oldest surely confirmed working border marker in<br/>
america<br/>
namely<br/>
bound rock<br/>
on us2nh3ro4hase <br/>
as shown here<br/>
dividing the rockingham county towns of hampton &<br/>
seabrook<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=4750248&e=351881&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=4750248&e=351881&s=50&size=l&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25</a><br/>
& said to date from 1656 or 1657<br/>
<br/>
& while in the neighborhood<br/>
i am also preparing to try sniffing out a possibly<br/>
older working rock<br/>
that was rumored locally to exist somewhere in america<br/>
<br/>
in fact at the very end of this somewhat questionable<br/>
article<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/parks/boundrock.htm">http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/parks/boundrock.htm</a><br/>
tho leaving one to guess where<br/>
hahahahaha<br/>
seeing as it is unsigned by the writer & is over 34<br/>
years old besides<br/>
& likely an extreme challenge to source any further<br/>
than this<br/>
<br/>
i did manage tho to learn the name of the owner of the<br/>
hampton union at the time of the article<br/>
who will be about 85 years old today <br/>
if still alive & findable with his memory intact<br/>
just in case it was he who wrote any of this stuff or<br/>
knows who did<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& <br/>
chanced again upon the mention here<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/randall/chap8/randall8_3.htm">http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/history/randall/chap8/randall8_3.htm</a><br/>
that bound rock also formerly marked the tripoint of<br/>
what has become the town of seabrook <br/>
with what has become the town of hampton <br/>
& what has become the town of hampton falls<br/>
<br/>
the article suggests the ghost tripoint period runs<br/>
from 1768 <br/>
tho it could have begun even earlier <br/>
since hampton falls or its predecessor dates from 1726<br/>
or 1722<br/>
& also suggests it may have remained a tripoint marker<br/>
until 1850 <br/>
or later<br/>
but specifically <br/>
until whenever this hahfse tripoint was moved to its<br/>
present location <br/>
as also shown on the above topo<br/>
less than a mile to the northwest of bound rock<br/>
on the mud flat in hampton harbor<br/>
<br/>
the validity of this tripoint ghost however<br/>
as well as its true birth & death dates if any<br/>
still remain to be confirmed<br/>
<br/>
mike kaufman<br/>
who first pointed this monument & these articles out<br/>
to us in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12356">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/12356</a><br/>
accepts & interprets the supposed ghost there as <br/>
1768hahfse1953<br/>
<br/>
but that idea is not supported by this 1894 topo<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://docs.unh.edu/NH/nwbr95ne.jpg">http://docs.unh.edu/NH/nwbr95ne.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
so <br/>
happily there is still somewhere to go on this<br/>
tripoint question too<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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